by Charles F. Collins, CEO – Airway Management
For years, many members of the dental sleep medicine community have been predicting that this segment of dentistry is poised for exponential growth. It’s right around the corner…
As the CEO of Airway Management, I’ve been fortunate to serve clinicians on the front line for the last 16 years. To effectively support the communi … [Read more...]

I am a nice person. In fact I’m so nice that I told my front desk team members to always let sales reps through. My team doesn’t need to be a gate keeper because I’m always willing to at least meet them. I most likely will not buy from them, but hey, they’re just trying to make a living. I was known as the nice dentist to pay a visit to until the day a distributor represe … [Read more...]

Finding the Starting Jaw Position
One challenge, and point of many discussions, is the starting position for oral appliance therapy in the management of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). A question that often comes up is “where do I set the first jaw position?” If I had the answer to this question, I would look like a genius. We seem to forget that our bite position, whether it be … [Read more...]

There’s an epidemic that’s 85% undiagnosed, affecting people all around us. Every medical professional has responsibility, but, so far, patients are suffering.
As our country settles into a new norm and political direction, we find ourselves facing unique realities and engaging in new ways of processing and thinking. We are left with an understanding that the way things were … [Read more...]

In his book “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman notes that “Analysts have always tended to measure a society (substitute “Dental Sleep Medicine Profession”) by classic economic and social statistics. Such statistics are important and revealing. Friedman prefers to ask a more telling question; “Does this society or profession have more memories or dreams?” If memories prevail a … [Read more...]

In 1992, an ENT surgeon referred a patient diagnosed with Sleep Related Breathing Disordered (SRBD) to me. This patient was non adherent with CPAP at a pressure of 18. Her sleep physician stated that since she had “failed CPAP” and was not a surgical candidate, her only option was to go to “this dentist who might have a solution”. Within a week, she received the only device avai … [Read more...]

Combining Technologies for Successful Outcomes with Innovations Like i-CAT, Ez Sleep, Night Shift and Apnea Guard®
Targeted and disruptive technologies” is the space where Dental Sleep Medicine dentists have always lived. Whether we know it or not, we have been all about disruptive innovation in the medical device field, and more specifically within the field of sleep me … [Read more...]

Introducing the first 3D Solution for the Analysis and Treatment of OSA
Dental Sleep Practice recently sat down with Dr. Scott Pope, an expert in the field of using Cone Beam technology to assist his patient care, to talk about the value his GALILEOS brings to his practice.
DSP: Scott, like many dentists, you have been treating sleep patients for a while in your … [Read more...]

Toward an Integrated Care Model for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
How do you define CPAP failure? The CMS guidelines set the generally accepted compliance threshold at 4hr/night on 70% of nights. What about Oral Appliance Therapy (OAT) failure? Here the definition gets more fuzzy. In a 2014 review, Sutherland et al. identified several alternative success criteria used by … [Read more...]